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Cold Weather No Battery life

Since older topics which go up to 2 years back are not getting any attention even-though there are new posts I'll start new thread.

Two days ago I want for a ride at -1°C on Garmin there were 4 battery bars which I though will be good enough. After 18 minutes Garmin edge 130 shut off. After restart it shut of in a minute.
Later that day I fully charged it and went for a ride. This time it shut off in 25 minutes and battery was full!

I don't mind that much that regular battery life is far from 15hours. But although it barely freezing I'm not able to do even one hour ride (actually I'm not able to leave town before ti dies). My Garmin Edge 130 is only 4 month old.

I know similar issues have been brought up in the past. Despite reading through all the threads I was not able to find "official" reply/reasoning over this problem. And new posts are not getting any attention.

Thanks.

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9877761 over 4 years ago in reply to ch1cote +1

I can do 3 rides without charging in summer. It's only winter when there is this problem. I really hope they update firmware to compensate on low battery reading when cold. All modern devices do that.…

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0 9877761 over 4 years ago

Question to Garmin FW developers:

If the problem is that slowed chemistry in battery due to temperature makes device think there is no capacity in battery. Isn't it possible to interpolate the temperature reading with battery reading and compensate on theoretical battery capacity (slowed chemistry due to temperature doe not mean there is not sustainable capacity although lower then usual).

0 Grabonemoregear over 4 years ago

Similar issue here. Was on a ride today between 32-35 degrees F and barely got 4 hours of battery life from a full charge.

0 WalterB over 4 years ago in reply to 9877761

good thougt

0 ch1cote over 4 years ago

I'm having the same problem. Just bought the unit and am disappointed that anything seemingly below 40 degrees F is no good and it shuts down early. My old first gen Fenix doesn't have this issue when mounted to the bars... might have to return the unit.

0 9877761 over 4 years ago in reply to ch1cote

I can do 3 rides without charging in summer. It's only winter when there is this problem. I really hope they update firmware to compensate on low battery reading when cold. All modern devices do that.

0 Cranky K. over 4 years ago

I replied in the "older topic" as it seems to still be getting responses. I'm having cold weather issues, but not as bad as some it would seem. Older topic: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/edge-130/155946/edge-130-cold-weather-performance?ReplySortBy=CreatedDate&ReplySortOrder=Descending